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Rindge Technical High School's auditorium, scene of the Club's April production of "The Man Who Came to Dinner," is definitely out of the HDC's plans as the result of a ruling by the Cambridge School Commission which prohibits use of the city's high school auditorium by a professional or commercial group for more than three days running...
Although the HDC terms itself a non-profit cultural organization, set up purely for the furthering and advancement of the drama, the School Commission has indicated that it would classify the HDC as commercial...
...willing to submit to the dictates of the officials of the Dramatic Club--men they considered less-experienced in theater work than they--and most of all, they were opposed to the period of candidacy required of new members of the Club. It was this anti-HDC feeling, more than a case of veterans buddying-up, which was responsible for the founding of the Veterans' Theater Workshop...
...like "Lefty" made a profit for the Club, but it was a play unsuited for amateur production, containing too few characters and demanding too much of its inexperienced principles. Anyone that tries to make a profit out of reviving Ibsen these days is very foolish, as was the HDC last year with "An Enemy of the People." But a more foolish fellow still is the one who takes a play which has just been thoroughly trounced by the Broadway critics and tried to resuscitate it in the hope that it will then prove a money-maker for him. Such...
...heavy debt from the failure of the Shaw play has influenced both selections for this year. "Amphitryon 38" was played up in the advance publicity as being very sexy, etc., and consequently must have disappointed some patrons. This spring, the HDC took a very daring step it brought in a Hollywood actor and a press agent with a limitless credit account. The amount of money spent on "The Man Who Came to Dinner," is rumored to be up in the 5-digits, but the Club apparently is going to be able to meet its old debts from the profits...